SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “If the president ... orders someone to assassinate [a rival], is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?”

Trump attorney D. John Sauer: “It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.”

Independent journalists are vital for responsible and objective news coverage, but we are often paid rates lower than the average fast-food worker. Great piece by Amy Littlefield

Fellow Freelancers: Don’t Marry Rich, Organize! thenation.com/article/econom…

Remember the Independent Police Review Board, legislated for Allegheny County three years ago, in a post-George Floyd bid to extend oversight of law enforcement? Miranda Jeyaretnam checked in and found ... well ... not much publicsource.org/independent-po…

The story is Biden is expanding on his 2020 strategy to prioritize local news, which are perceived as less ideological and more targeted to the swing voters he wants to reach. But Washington outlets are too self important to understand why. “Both sides” can be the only answer.

BREAKING from ProPublica:

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes

propublica.org/article/israel…

by Brett Murphy

It's the B@ri W3iss playbook, to a T.

She's been at this for nearly 2 decades, and these legacy institutions haven't realized that you can't deal with this sort of bad faith attack on their terms. They punch, you punch back harder.

The beleaguered pulpit search committee of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church is moving forward with the candidacy of Kevin R. Johnson after facing public scrutiny over accusations of gender discrimination earlier this year.

Johnson, the 50-year-old lead pastor of Philadelphia’s…

NEVER FORGET

You don't need to ask why American journalism is broken when major media companies pay $300,000 per year contracts for opinion voices like Ronna McDaniel and $200 per article for fact-based freelance journalism.

Few have noticed, but Boston has had almost no homicides in 2024, an extraordinary start to the year for a US city of 650,000 people. commonwealthbeacon.org/criminal-justi…

So many blatant crooks in American health care, nursing home owners are probably top of the heap. Terrible care, high costs and 22% profit margins. More from a great piece in The Conversation US by Sean Kevin Campbell & charlene harrington
theconversation.com/for-profit-nur…

This has happened so many times I still am so frustrated by our economic coverage

A judge tosses claims against a former Wisconsin police officer who killed 3 people in five years apnews.com/article/wauwat…

For-profit nursing home chains dominate an industry long known for cutting corners in pursuit of profits. According to Sean Kevin Campbell, this 'race to the bottom' is getting worse govexec.com/oversight/2024…

Treasury oversees the IRS.

The IRS’s job is to police tax cheats.

Jeff Yass’s taxes suggest there’s a ton that needs auditing, as we laid out in this story in ‘22:

propublica.org/article/jeff-y…

Did you notice that there was not a Doonesbury in your Sunday Paper (basically any Gannett paper, including the Des Moines Register) here it is! See the thread for all six panels! (1)

Outrageous. And a lawyer repping landlords tries to blame tenant protection law saying the units 'generally need lots of work to bring them up to building standard.' So, these stricken owners were renting units not up to building standard for years.

thecity.nyc/2024/02/14/ren…

The deputy misinterpreted the sound of an acorn striking the patrol vehicle as a gunshot.

“END RACISM” right above “CHIEFS”… woof that’s tough